Which Black artists are featured in the BillionDollarArtGallery?

The following Black artists are featured in the BillionDollarArtGallery:

• Henry Ossawa Tanner was an American artist and the first African American painter to gain international acclaim. Five of Tanner’s paintings are in the BillionDollarArtGallery: The Artist’s Mother, #424, Daniel in the Lion’s Den, #363, The Annunciation, #201, The Seine, #039, and Flight into Egypt, #111.
  
  
• Robert Scott Duncanson was perhaps the most accomplished African American painter in the United States from 1850 to 1860. He painted mostly landscapes, and is represented by #287, Vesuvius and Pompey.
  
  
• Edward Mitchell Bannister was a Black painter who created a sensation when one of his paintings won first prize at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition in 1876. His paintings include Apple Trees in a Meadow, #006, and Boston Commons, #342

These paintings in the BillionDollarArtGallery include people of color as subjects:

• #78 Rousseau, The Sleeping Gypsy
  
  
• #138 John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark
  
  
• #147 Jean-Louis Théodore Géricault, The Raft of the Medusa
  
  
• #190 Emanuel Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware According to legend, Prince Whipple accompanied General Whipple and George Washington in the famous crossing of the Delaware River. In this painting, Prince Whipple is the Black man fending off ice with an oar, seated to the left of Washington’s knee
  
  
• #329 Winslow Homer, The Gulf Stream
  
  
• #424 Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Artist’s Mother

The BillionDollarArtGallery is a survey of Western art through the early 1900s. Copyright and licensing issues prevented us from adding more recent artists of color, though we have collected more paintings by artists of color for the forthcoming BillionDollarArtGallery II.